The moment they start mixing ads into responses Ill stop using them. Open models are good enough, its just more convenient to use chatgpt right now, but that can change.
That's when services start to insert ads into their product.
And this leads to something I genuinely don't understand - because I don't see ads. I use adblocker, and don't bother with media with too many ads because there's other stuff to do. It's just too easy to switch off a show and start up a steam game or something. It's not the 90s anymore, people have so many options for things.
Idk, maybe I am wrong, but I really think there is something very broken in the ad world as a remenant from the era where google/facebook were brand new and the signal to noise ratio for advertisers was insanely high and interest rates were low. Like a bunch of this activity is either bots or kids, and the latter isn't that easy to monetize.
I doubt people ignore sponsored listings on Amazon.
Sure my example of asking for a recipe is contrived but imagine that for every query you make, that AI suggests using this framework for your web development, or basically any query you can think of will make subtle suggestions to use a specific product with compelling reasons why e.g. the competition has known bugs that will affect you personally!
The possibilities are endless.
Do you currently pay for it?
I tried to pay for Claude but they didn't accept my credit card for some reason.
I have local models working well, but they are a bit slow, my laptop is 5 years old, but eventually when I buy a new one Ill make the switch.
Are they though? I have the best consumer hardware and can run most open models, and they are all unusable beyond basic text generation. I'm talking 90%+ hallucination rate.